Archives for December 2007

Lee Myung Bak is easily known by his nick name “Bulldozer,” he gained that figure in the era when South Korea made the remarkable appear nearly regular. Lee soared his triumph in the 17th presidential election in South Korea.

Two decades ago, when Lee owned Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co. , the nation made a nonviolent changeover from an autocratic domination to democracy, hosted a productive Summer Olympics, and repeatedly racked upward yearly economical increase of eight per penny or much, creating Korea’s own economical miracle.

Lee stayed in a single room house in Seoul; his parents were working as street vendors. Lee worked hard to study in the college by peddling fruits and vegetables. In the year 1965, he joined the prestigious Hyundai Company. Later in 1977 he started his own largest Chaebol’s subsidiaries. Lee worked as mayor of Seoul since 2002 to 2006, during this period his direction was on stimulating financial glory days.

Lee’s victory led him to promise seven percent growth in economy. This doubles the per capita income up to $40,000 per year. Lee’s ambition plan for next 5 years is to make South Korea the 7th largest nation around the reality in economy, which is presently in 13th spot. Lee has a plan to cut down in the corporate tax by a third, to 10 percent. This will permit the investors in investing much, which leads to introduction in many jobs. Lee’s next focus is to bring down the unemployment rate. He has a plan to reduce the number of regulatory hoops which gives way to the Korean entrepreneurs in getting into the business. Lee is too concentrating on creating jobs by constructing large domestic canal which would link the country’s rivers.

Highlight of Lee’s triumph is packed by his international policies and South Korean strong relations with North Korea and also victorious meeting held in the month of October between current President Roh Moo Hyun and Kim Jong II.

Exactly 20 years after the best available and impartial election in the nation’s story, South Korea is now behaving like nothing if not an old democracy. Turnout in this election was just over 62% of the qualified electorate — downward abruptly from the 71% hat turned away to elect Roh Moo Hyun five years ago.

2007 election made South Koreans look that their nation has get then steady and too well-off. Nearly 40 percent of the electorate is downright bored with politics.

The process for cloning the cats has been around 6 complete years. The research squad reported the process saying picked skin cells from Turkish Angora female cats and used a virus to tuck the hereditary instructions for making crimson colorful protein. Then they added the gene-altered nuclei into eggs for cloning. The cloned embryos were implanted backwards into the giver cats, which effectively became the surrogate mothers for their own clones.

Korea Times reported that through Caesarian, four kittens came into light and accidentally one of it lost its living. There was powerful evidence that the rind of the kittens’ glowed under ultraviolet light and proved it to be gene-altered clones.

People with genetic disorders usually have to receive treatment throughout their lives that is very hard on them. If these results can help to make their lives easier, then it’s a wonderful thing.

These investigation results were away through the media and not from the formal reports. Ratification is required to place more fund in glowing reports. Incase the ceremonial reports confirms, it’s a measure ahead in the hereditary advancement.

Even if the cloning in cats get a regular use in laboratories, that cannot be tested on all the pets at home. Glow in the fish have been offered commercially for several years – but they’re yet unlawful in California and many countries, payable to concerns about genetically modified organisms.

AnyBand is Samsung’s promotional group for Samsung’s AnyCall. Their’s a new song out called TPL (“Talk Play Love”). It’s pretty catchy. I just hope it won’t get overplayed like the Wonder Girls’ Tell me and Big Band “거짓말” (Lies).

I got this message from the US Embassy in Seoul today and thought it would be great to share it with you. If you’re interested in helping out. It’s cool to see that people are willing to lend a hand even though it was someone else’s fault.

The Korean government continues to confront a major challenge following the large oil spill off the coast of Taean County. So far more than 9,000 soldiers, policemen, and volunteers have been mobilized to mop up the oil and contain the environmental damage.

Members of the expatriate community who wish to contribute to the effort to combat the oil spill can do so in several ways:

1) Donations of goods: Authorities and volunteers need any of the following items you can donate:

— used winter clothing
— old towels or any other old cloth that can help absorb oil
— personal protective gear such as face masks, rain coats, rubber boots, and gloves.

The Taean County Relief Center is receiving applications from individual volunteers or organizations via telephone (042-670-2645 through 2653) or through its website at www.taean.go.kr.

Applications should be made at least one day in advance so that the relief center can assign volunteers to the most-needed area.

Please note that volunteers are required to bring with them their own protective gear including raincoats, boots, and gloves. Please note also that there is no interpretation service available for foreigners, so a basic command of the Korean language is needed.

3) Donation of Money:

Donations of money to assist in the clean-up operation are being received by the South Choongcheong Provincial Government at the following account:

Nonghyup Bank, Account No.: 471-01-002107, held in the name of: The Governor of South Choongcheong Province.

The U.S. Embassy thanks you for considering these assistance measures.